Anything, everything. My recommendation - if a cougar comes a callin', go with it. Always a life affirming experience, and sometimes a life changing experience. It's not the things we do that we regret, it's the things we don't do.

Any scientist worth a crap would take some of said foxes, and relocate them to a different geographic location where the relation to the earths magnetic field would be different, and observe if they still pounce in a pattern, and how it relates to the change.

The fact that this thought does not appear to come to anyone in the article suggests that they're idiots and none of what they say should be considered credible.

Alonjar:Any scientist worth a crap would take some of said foxes, and relocate them to a different geographic location where the relation to the earths magnetic field would be different, and observe if they still pounce in a pattern, and how it relates to the change.

The fact that this thought does not appear to come to anyone in the article suggests that they're idiots and none of what they say should be considered credible.

/yay science

I guess you'd have to also take their prey and control for all the variables of the environment so that they only thing that changes is magnetic orientation. I'm sure that kind of funding exists to study foxes.

Mercutio74:Alonjar: Any scientist worth a crap would take some of said foxes, and relocate them to a different geographic location where the relation to the earths magnetic field would be different, and observe if they still pounce in a pattern, and how it relates to the change.

The fact that this thought does not appear to come to anyone in the article suggests that they're idiots and none of what they say should be considered credible.

/yay science

I guess you'd have to also take their prey and control for all the variables of the environment so that they only thing that changes is magnetic orientation. I'm sure that kind of funding exists to study foxes.

No... if they pounce in a different direction with different prey, then the hypothesis that they always pounce in the same direction due to magnetic field is still disproven.

Alonjar:Mercutio74: Alonjar: Any scientist worth a crap would take some of said foxes, and relocate them to a different geographic location where the relation to the earths magnetic field would be different, and observe if they still pounce in a pattern, and how it relates to the change.

The fact that this thought does not appear to come to anyone in the article suggests that they're idiots and none of what they say should be considered credible.

/yay science

I guess you'd have to also take their prey and control for all the variables of the environment so that they only thing that changes is magnetic orientation. I'm sure that kind of funding exists to study foxes.

No... if they pounce in a different direction with different prey, then the hypothesis that they always pounce in the same direction due to magnetic field is still disproven.

...and either way, having the funding doesnt matter. I took offense to the fact that they claimed to have exercised every option and this was the conclusion they were left with.. when they didnt truly attempt verify their claim at all.

Anything, everything. My recommendation - if a cougar comes a callin', go with it. Always a life affirming experience, and sometimes a life changing experience. It's not the things we do that we regret, it's the things we don't do.

You must have a very unadventurous life if you've never done something you regret.

Sometimes I wish we had celestial navigation like poop beetles, or echo-location like dolphins, but then again, if we could accomplish things without making them using our oversized brains to overcome our natural deficiencies then we wouldn't have made tools, and so on. End result is wouldn't have the internet and pornography.